Dumbest. Feature. Ever.

I have a dialup connection. I have "Connect automatically" checked. Under Apple's new Panther, it doesn't work. Wanna know why? When I disconnect manually, "Connect Automatically" is disabled. Guess I have to write a script to toggle the network location back and forth every hour.

Dumbest. Feature. Ever.

Update: Why is this important to me? In Jaguar, every morning, I cron'd Eudora to open up (and initiate a connection) at 7:03. At 7:09, when I woke up, my email was waiting for me. When I leave for work at 8:43, I disconnect. I get home from work at 6:07. At 6:02, Eudora was cron'd to open up and initiate a connection, again, solely to have my email waiting for me. Since I disconnected at 8:43, this no longer works.

Likewise, during the weekend, I'm not connected all day long, but I would do "fly-by connections". To get to the bathroom, you have to pass through the room where the computer is. I had key-command'd Eudora to F3. If I hadn't checked my email in awhile, I'd F3 on my way to the bathroom, and by the time I was done, my email was downloaded, I'd read it, then disconnect.

All borked. And that's just my daily email tirade - that doesn't consider all the regular scripts I have that do different things (like automatically publish pages to my site, aggregate RSS feeds, send out email updates). All broken, just because I disconnect before going to work.